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Coal, Blood and Iron

Two hundred years ago industrialisation swept from Britain across Europe, bringing prosperity but also social problems and war on an unprecedented scale. The cause of it all? Coal.

In the last two hundred years European society has been revolutionised, and at the heart of this dramatic change lies a single geological resource - coal. Industrialisation swept from Britain across the coalfields of Europe, bringing wealth and prosperity to the cities but also dreadful social problems. Meanwhile industrialisation allowed, and even encouraged, warfare on an unprecedented scale.

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Sun 3 Nov 1991 19:20

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